Presentation for Denver Titanium Users Meetup -- first revision based on questions and feedback at the meeting. Newly added: 1)links go great pattern resources 2)slide showing sketch, wireframe, mockup 3)side-by-side reference of Android and iOS design guidelines, 4)design go-to questions slide reflects Paul's comment about rich experiences. Next revision: concrete examples and images! Thanks for your thoughts, guys!

1. Mobile UX
A contextual design
perspective
For Titanium User Group
Jen Shurley. 9.23.2013. jenshurley@gmail.com @jens_cam

2. A user experience
perspective

3. Mobile as a part of someone’s life and
environment

4. Structure of talk: iceberg
• App show
(concrete first)
• A contextual
perspective on UX
design
• Conversation
about design
patterns
Webb et al 2008

5. Starting point: black hole to do list.
David Allen - GTD
Life Hacker
18 Minutes
Real Simple Magazine
Family art night
cards

6. App goals
• Reduce cognitive and emotional load
induced by long lists of cleaning tasks
• Provide randomly selected, limited
choice of ridiculously easy goals
• Timebox
• Don’t optimize everything; choose.

7. Tools used
• Initial Design – Mocks and Wireframes
– Pen and paper.
– Google docs for user stories
– Adobe Illustrator – (b/c you can build mocks right
on wireframes)
• Moving forward
– TFS for ALM (show user stories)
– C#, ASP.NET, host in Azure

8. Tap Flow,
Wireframe
Low High
fidelity
Sketch Mockup
Visual Skins

9. This is kind of like using design patterns…

10. TFS is the ALM

11. “don’t design [just] for yourself”
• You - Your felt experience, as a
human, can provide valuable
information
• Users – empathetic observations,
interviews, usability tests
• Experts – design patterns, design
libraries, large usability studies

12. Suspending bias, generating
empathy
What??
HOW
FASCINATING!
Huh?

13. Learning about a user’s
experience
• Go beyond asking users “what do you
want us to build?”
• Notice: watch how users interact with
prototypes, paper prototypes,
competing products
• Ask: discover their goals, values, the
way they organize their thoughts on
something.

14. Go-to questions
As a Contextual
Researcher
• Under what conditions?
• What are the different
ways that people see
this problem?
• “Tell me more about
that” (suspend bias)
As a Designer
• Does is make sense for
this app to be simple,
or should we provide a
richer experience?
• Is there hierarchy and
differentiation?
• How does the design
support the function?
• How do visual elements
relate and work
together?

15. Learning Resources I have found
helpful
• Usability.gov
• Smashing magazine and ebooks
• Lean UX and Lean UX for startups
• Josh Clark’s Myths in Mobile
presentation
http://globalmoxie.com/jhc/prez/mob
ile-context-myth-fowd.pdf
• A List Apart books

16. Questions - design patterns
• Your take on x design pattern
• Others that are really important
• Things you wish designers would take
into consideration when designing for
mobile

17. Android design guidelines
http://developer.android.com/design/get-started/principles.html

18. • https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/document
ation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/index.
html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006556-CH66-SW1
iOS design guidelines
Other pattern resources & lists
• http://pttrns.com/categories/25-about
• http://www.youthedesigner.com/2013/01/09/10-useful-resources-where-
you-can-get-best-mobile-ui-design-patterns/
• http://blog.mariuszwozniak.com/post/40090655756/top-10-mobile-ui-
design-and-interaction-patterns
• http://www.androidpatterns.com/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mobiledesignpatterngallery/collections/

19. Josh Clark
• Mobile Context Recap:
• Mobile is not rushed or less.
• Complex is not complicated.
• Tap quality not tap quantity.
• Focus for all platforms.
• No such thing as mobile web.
• Don’t think app: think service.
• Metadata is the new art direction.
http://justcreative.com/2011/11/07/future-of-web-design-conference-
day-1-review/

20. Android Design Principles
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iOS Design Principles
Aesthetic Integrity
• how well an app’s appearance and behavior
integrates with its function to send a coherent
message.
Consistency
• pays attention to the standards and paradigms
people are comfortable with and it provides
an internally consistent experience
Direct Manipulation
• When people directly manipulate onscreen
objects instead of using separate controls to
manipulate them, they're more engaged with
their task and it’s easier for them to understand
the results of their actions.
Feedback
• Feedback acknowledges people’s actions,
shows them the results, and updates them on
the progress of their task.
Metaphors
• When virtual objects and actions in an app are
metaphors for familiar experiences—whether
these experiences are rooted in the real world
or the digital world—users quickly grasp how to
use the app.
User Control
• People—not apps—should initiate and control
actions. An app can suggest a course of
action or warn about dangerous
consequences, but it’s usually a mistake for the
app to take decision-making away from the
user.

21. patterns http://uxdesign.smashingmaga
zine.com/2012/04/10/ui-
patterns-for-mobile-apps-
search-sort-filter/
Great article about
search, sort and filter
with lots of examples
http://uxdesign.smashingmaga
zine.com/2012/06/06/design-
patterns-when-breaking-rules-
ok/
If I wanted to give a
talk on design patterns,
I would base it heavily
on this!
Mobile design
principles
http://alistapart.com/topic/mo
bile-multidevice
Collection of articles
from respected
thought leaders
http://alistapart.com/article/or
ganizing-mobile
Luke Wroblewski’s
principles for mobile